Kevin Lee said:Impressive benchmark results
AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s long awaited release is still three days away, but today we’re spoiling you with a sneak peek of what this extreme processor can do.
TechRadar received an early review unit of the Alienware Area 51 Threadripper Edition, and we can confidently say it is the most powerful system we’ve ever tested. Not only does it feature a 16-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor, there’s also an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti graphics card included as well.
Benchmarks
Here's how the Alienware Area 51 performed in our early testing:
3DMark: Sky Diver: 48,500; Fire Strike: 21,661; Time Spy: 9,273
Cinebench CPU: 162 (single-core); 2,994 (multi-core)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (1080p, Ultra): 91 fps
Rise of the Tomb Raider (1440p, Ultra): 58fps
Rise of the Tomb Raider (4K, Ultra): 27 fps
With all of this overwhelming computing power, we saw the Area 51 shred its way through the toughest benchmark tests we could throw at it.
Cinebench’s rendering test typically takes a good half minute to finish, but Threadripper chewed through the task in mere seconds. This is largely due to the fact that the 1950X has four to eight times the number of cores over the average CPU, each of which it can use to render part of the image simultaneously.
The Alienware Area 51’s Cinebench score blows past our previous record holder, the Origin Millennium, which completed the same test with 2,205 points using Intel’s last-generation, deca-core Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E chip.
More impressively, we witnessed 3DMark’s most punishing graphics benchmarks, which typically cause most gaming PC to a stutter, running smoothly. Although it didn’t beat the Millennium’s 28,817 point score in Fire Strike, it came mighty close with just a single Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti versus the earlier’s dual Nvidia GTX 1080 configuration.
Finally, we played Rise of the Tomb Raider on Ultra at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions. From the numbers you can expect a playable experience no matter how many pixels you're asking it to push.
You’ll also likely get a faster frame rate by turning down some of the settings, as for our tests we turned up everything to max including Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing – a very demanding form of anti-aliasing.
This is just a taste of what Threadripper can do. We’ve still got a lot of testing to do here at the TechRadar labs and we’ll have full reviews on both the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and Alienware Area 51 coming soon, so stay tuned.
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- The Origin Millenium scored 2,205 points on Cinebench (CPU = Intel i7-6950X, $1649 MSRP)
- The Alienware Area 51 scored 2,994 points on Cinebench (CPU = AMD Threadripper 1950X, $999 MSRP)
LOL@EKWB denying the thermal wall on the Ryzen processors.Here is interesting news from Reddit.
X399 motherboard. There's only a few out, and they start at $350:
Perhaps, but if they're "rocking 4.2 easy" over there, why didn't they mention a higher clock than that on traditional water cooling? Why not 4.8 or 4.5?
They might be under an NDA. They could get away with saying 4.2 because there's already 4.2 chips in circulation
It's a highly suspicious number to quote.
If they can hit 4.5 without a huge voltage increase, I may end up switching.
For the 1920X? Damn, that's a pricey processor. If you're talking about a 4.5GHz Threadripper, though, you're into some seriously high-end shit.
No, I had not seen that, but that's nice because it looks like that solidifies the R3 win in the $100-$150 range with less controversy.
Not better, but a better value.
Damn. I guess the price shouldn't be too surprising though since it's cutting edge tech. I realize this is targeted at workstations and graphic designer types but you know there will be some crazy gamers out there with too much free cash on their hands who will want this thing so they can play at 1000 fps, lol.
12/24 @4.5 should last a long time and I won't have to upgrade my CPU/mobo for 5+ years. I'm assuming they're going to be following the R series with not changing the CPU socket until 2020.For the 1920X? Damn, that's a pricey processor. If you're talking about a 4.5GHz Threadripper, though, you're into some seriously high-end shit.
No, I had not seen that, but that's nice because it looks like that solidifies the R3 win in the $100-$150 range with less controversy.
Not better, but a better value.
The new Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor is $999 on Amazon, and has 16 cores that hyperthread (SMT). The current Intel Skylake Broadwell-E i7-6950X performs slightly better per core, but it only has 10 cores, and it goes for $1649 on Amazon. The upcoming Skylake-X 16-core CPU will debut with an MSRP of $1699. The i7-7740X and i5-7640X are clearly the most well-suited to the gamer niche. The i7-7800X should also interest gamers on value.
Oh yeah, I should probably mention there will also be a 12 core Threadripper 1920X for $799.
Agreed. It's such a pity, too. I've been playing Vainglory on this throwaway Ellipsis HD tablet that they bundled for free (to clear them out, I'm sure, LOL) with a new Verizon phone. It's on a middling ARM-based octacore 1.5GHz Snapdragon 617 processor with the Adreno 405 GPU; the same chipset in the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus.
I wouldn't be surprised to see ARM based desktops coming out soon from the big guys like dell or hp.
And...
...as expected in the overclocking department.Tom's Hardware said:Overclocking
Our Ryzen Threadripper 1950X sample overclocked to 3.9 GHz and 1.35V. However, the all-in-one water cooling solution in our kit couldn’t keep the system stable at that level. This was due to the processors’ power consumption rising to more than 250W during rendering.
And so we went back to our Chiller to achieve some better comparisons. This way, there’s one true constant to our measurements: a water temperature of approximately 20°C, which can be held constant, even topping more than 300W of waste heat.
For everyday use, a normal water-cooling solution will definitely suffice thanks to the soldered heat spreader, which makes AMD’s processor much less of a challenge than Intel's Core i9-7900X. Our approach simply allows us a bit more sophistication in our overclocking endeavors.
Using the Chiller, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 1950X achieved 4 GHz at 1.45V. Just don't expect to see those results from your own overclock. Even the Chiller started to fall behind the CPU's thermal output as temperatures crept too high for comfort. This is why the processor is overclocked to more reasonable levels for our benchmarks, with Threadripper running at 3.9 GHz.
